Sorry for the lack of an entry last week.   I ended up at a buddy's house, had much of a strong beer.    Then Independence Day.

In the meantime, I did finish the giant robot.   At least, I finished building it;

This one I do plan on painting.  I'm thinking flat or satin black with white accents.   I'll also need to make some grayscaled versions of the markings.   I don't like the colors they're in now.

If you don't pay attention to my other content, this past week was mostly trains.    I solder leads to my Marklin K track, finally.   Picked up acid flux to solder the stainless rails.

I also took the time to solder power drops for my shoebox layout;

These were infinitely cleaner.   This sort of thing I've done before.

I had ordered and received one of the N20 motors y'all have been writing about, along with 3D printed gears.   First look was to see if it would fit in the Y8 I acquired some years ago;

Current consensus is no, but I think I can fiddle it in.

Next, I dragged out the Nu-Cast 3F I've had for equally long;

This was a very easy fit.  I just need to ream out the gear a bit more for the axle.   I can just about the motor entirely below the footplate.   OO gauge, mind you.

Finally, tonight, as I had the soldering iron more-or-less out, I tried fussing with an old Jidenco kit I had picked up.   I made a mess of it;

I'm fairly certain I'm still not properly equipped.   I'll need to work on that.   Next week, then?